yum.log and logwatch

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Sep 14 17:03:17 UTC 2006


On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:54:02AM +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
> at the bottom of the file. Apparently the entries in yum.log do not  
> contain years in their dates, so logwatch doesn't know these updates  
> were installed a year ago instead of now. Is this something I should  
> report or has this been fixed in more recent yum versions? I realize  
> FC3 is only getting security updates these days and I guess this is  
> not really a security issue (although for a short moment I thought  
> someone must have had unauthorized access to my box).

It's definitely an annoying problem. Newer yum can log to syslog, which will
solve this.
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